Figure 1.
Timeline of the history of surgical sperm retrieval prior to the discovery of mTESE. IVF: in vitro fertilization; ICSI: intracytoplasmic sperm injection; NOA: non-obstructive azoospermia; mTESE: microdissection testicular sperm extraction.
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